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Sea Of Thieves Review - Gamereactor Sweden

Sea of ​​Thieves is a limited and extremely mediocre game that contains several parts that do not feel completely complete. Certainly, the sunsets reflecting in the wonderfully well-made water impresses and the initial joy does not let go of it. The feeling of joy is, however, tricky and after a couple of hours the reality is creepy and you'll be left with a full-priced game where it's hard to find reasons to play.

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Aceman182230d ago ShowReplies(3)
Daz2229d ago

Well I love the game. I want to become a legend pirate. I was expecting more from the Kraken.

The Wood2229d ago

Good for you bro. Bottom line to be honest. At least you can name a fault. Others dare not break the fb treaty. Sadly some of my kinsmen will focus on these scores by the way of malice, rivalry, banter or revenge. It happens across the board. .

Eonjay2229d ago

A friend of mines told me about a technique he had for digesting reviews. He basically said take the best review and the worst review and throw them out. There are going to be people on both sides of the spectrum at extremes. This doesn't however provide an accurate representation of how most will feel. Therefore, he seeks out the average of scores and reads those reviews.

gums0072229d ago

My technique is to play the game and decide for myself. Now there's a thought!

IamTylerDurden12229d ago (Edited 2229d ago )

The game probably isn't a 5 but it certainly doesn't appear to be a 9.3. I find it extremely odd that 2 days after release there was still a quasi review embargo. Metacritic user reviews are at about a 6/10 which sounds more or less right considering all the issues.

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bouzebbal2229d ago

Best game rare has ever made... Nothing is left of rare.. RIP

darthv722229d ago

So.... why is there so many people saying they are having fun with this game if the reviewers say otherwise?

I mean fun should be the main reason to play a game....... right?

DogJosha2229d ago

@Eonjay based on your friend's technique, you would ignore the few bad reviews that breath of the wild had. While they may have scored the game too low, those low reviews were probably the only reviews with some true insight into how the game truly was. The truth is that reviews are hardly ever even close to unbiased now and you need to read the content of them ALL or just go ahead and ignore every last one.

fr0sty2229d ago

The fact that all of the reviews have the same complaint, that the game lacks substance, is good evidence that the game actually does lack substance.

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DaDrunkenJester2229d ago

I'm loving it also. A lot of fun with a friend or 2. Still quite a bit I haven't done yet though.

RpgSama2229d ago

"Still quite a bit I haven't done yet though."

I sure hope so, unless you've been playing for 2 days straight (and even then) there should be a lot more than just quite a bit to be done.

IamTylerDurden12229d ago

How do you feel about the fetch quests?

DaDrunkenJester2229d ago

@Tyler

The quests are just something to follow while the real fun and adventure unfolds around that mission. None of the fun I had was directly caused by just catching a chicken. It was the random encounters with real people, stopping and exploring a sunken ship and fighting off sharks, and just messing around with my crew.

IamTylerDurden12229d ago (Edited 2229d ago )

I don't doubt it can be fun goofing around with others, i just feel like this title could've been a free 2 play. If it was i don't there would be so much backlash.

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maybelovehate2229d ago

I did, but it was bugged out and didn't function at all sadly.

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nRicosS2229d ago

@lovehate
Its not bugged, but you have to download the body of kraken via dlc

MegamanXXX2229d ago

Dam a 5. That's kinda brutal. I gave it a 7

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IamTylerDurden12229d ago (Edited 2229d ago )

After watching streams and reading numerous user reviews the game appears to have issues.

LACK OF CONTENT - just like a free 2 play game on day 1 it will take time to fill out the world.

SERVER ISSUES - we were told that Microsoft has the best dedicated servers and online infrastructure..

LACK OF COSMETICS - with cosmetics being the only reward for progressing it's troubling to see a lack of them.

LACK OF PROGRESSION - the is no character progression so it leaves little incentive to keep playing.

TERRIBLE QUESTS - filled with fetch quests and redundant busy work the quest system is very poor.

BAD GROUND COMBAT - the ship combat looks good but the ground combat is hollow and mediocre.

LACK OF GUNS & SHIPS - severe lack of guns (only 2 or 3?) and ships for a game that's loot based.

"KRAKEN" - there has been very little added since the betas. The Kraken was used to hype the game, it's an unfinished joke (the Kraken).

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MorpheusX2229d ago (Edited 2229d ago )

@IamTylerDurden1

Makes you wonder, why this game has been in development so long, @ least 4 years, & this is all Microsoft/Rare have to show for it?

Hmm. Strange.

Should have been F2P imo with level of content on release.

Attention: This kinda stuff is why Microsoft catches so much hell from game consumers.

It doesn't seem like they care anymore. Main focus on Xbox Live & Services.

Then Xbox fans feel personally attacked when game consumers complain, say negative things, & write Microsoft off.

Hello?,

this is another fine example why there's such contempt for Microsoft in the Gaming Sector.

And Microsoft is charging $60?.

Why? Smh.

_-EDMIX-_2229d ago

So even people who love the game are still expecting more? How does that bode well for the future of this publisher?

I'm sorry but for the price of a $60 game for a game that has been in development for years and a game that's supposed to be a Redemption for this development team this is just shoddy workmanship it is extremely low quality in something that is below the standard for a AAA game in what we come to expect in this industry.

So I'm not entirely sure how they're going to be matching up against some of the best teams in gaming like Sony Santa Monica or naughty dog or Guerilla Games or Kojima Productions when you have their own development teams that are basically missing basic enemies..

So at this point is Microsoft even going to release full price games anymore if they're just going to be budget value quality? I never thought I would have saw the day where Microsoft releasing multiple titles with bad quality and missing content.

I mean sure over the years we always had our own views on Microsoft Back in the Day titles like Halo Gears of War Alan Wake Fable what have you had great quality now they're just releasing very very shoddy games.

At this rate we're actually still waiting for them to even produce any new games that are to the quality of what Gears of War was last generation...

Can we even say Microsoft has anything equivalent to a new IP that was on the scale of what we saw from Gears or Alan Wake or Mass Effect or anything?

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XiNatsuDragnel2229d ago

Yikes I knew this was going to happen

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Could Helldivers 2 Be PlayStation’s Sea Of Thieves?

Opinion: Why Helldivers 2 and Sea of Thieves, despite their obvious differences, are very much the same for PlayStation and Xbox

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Magatsuhi7d ago

Tired of these MS fluff pieces. Sot does not come close to what hd2 does.

danno_omen7d ago

You should probably read the article then, I wasn’t comparing the actual games

Cacabunga7d ago

How can it be PS sea of thieves when SOT is on PS5? Were you just in a hurry to write something??

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MrNinosan7d ago

Make a less click baiting headline next time, and people might read bwfore judging.

z2g7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

people don't understand nuance or abstract thought. they just hear two games and decide they like one better than the other so the one they don't like can't be anything close to the one they like. I get that you are speaking in a larger context, not a direct comparison. it could be a huge community building game that has a long burn that could also extend to other platforms and or be cross platform. it could be like sea of thieves in that regard etc. never mind the knuckle draggers on this site. its impossible to have a reasonable, objective conversation here.

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redknight807d ago

I know the headline is a bit bonkers but it is otherwise a good read apart from that.

InUrFoxHole7d ago

Lol you didn't read it. It's just suggesting that it would be beneficial for gamers if HD2 came to xbox. Like sea of thieves did. Don't get in your feels over it.

Magatsuhi7d ago

Its a click bait article. It benefits only xbox to bring a successful game to their failure of a console.

InUrFoxHole7d ago

Lol you big 😠 😡. Just wait till the showcase!

GamerRN7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

Yeah, this site just constantly has so many positive Xbox sm articles, I'm tired of them also... 🙄

z2g7d ago

what a surprise, more basic thinking from basic gamers. the comparison it could be a huge community building game that has a long burn that could also extend to other platforms and or be cross platform. it could be like sea of thieves in that regard etc.... sorry thoughts get more abstract than what your brain can seem to handle

Sonic18816d ago (Edited 6d ago )

Well Helldivers 2 might be releasing on Xbox in the near future

https://n4g.com/news/259589...

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Tody_ZA7d ago

I think Helldivers 2 could be PlayStation's Helldivers 2.

Elda7d ago

PS5 gaming console exclusive Helldivers 2 is Helldivers 2 & nothing else.

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Sea of Thieves on PlayStation 5: the next big Xbox multi-platform game tested

Sea of Thieves stared off life as an Xbox exclusive, growing over time into a genuine hit with a large, committed community. Now, in an effort to increase its audience still futher, it's become a key part of Microsoft's multi-platform push.

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Einhander19726d ago

So, no one wants to talk about how the PS5 outperforms the xbox version in multiple ways, huh?

purple1016d ago

Draw distance better / shadows better

Also he calls most ps5 “oddity’s” and uses the term “not sure why this is happening” a lot

Ps5 is just more powerful, those 2teraflop difference and Xbox fanatics saying world most powerful console, is worth zip- zero

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Sea of Thieves Welcomes 40 Million Players

Joe 'Three Sheets' Neate (Executive Producer): "As I’m sure you can imagine, when it comes to Sea of Thieves my days are full of numbers. Development costs, active servers, days until the next update… Sometimes, though, a truly extraordinary number stands out – a number like 40 million, which I’m incredibly pleased to say is the number of pirates who’ve now set sail in Sea of Thieves!"

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darthv7210d ago

Garrr... more people to walk the plank and send to Davey Jones locker.

would have been funny to release this on talk like a pirate day.

aaronaton9d ago

I nearly died from cringe reading this...

coolbeans9d ago

Ye wouldn't be any fun on the high seas!

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TrueRican6910d ago

I pre-order the premium edition for my PS5 today

Crows9010d ago (Edited 10d ago )

40 million have set sail...that's great. How many are sailing now? Monthly active users....when it actually matters. How many people purchased the game is another important number.

Gamingsince198110d ago

You don't get numbers like that from MS mouth pieces, they just like to say stuff like "this game was looked at 129 million time, the biggest amount of people browsing a game of this genre on xbox gamepass ever in the last 3 weeks compared to before gamepass was out (small print only 2 million bothered playing longer than 20 seconds and only 100 people are playing it concurrently)

It's all smoke and mirrors

nibblo10d ago

There are usually around 10,000 concurrent users on Steam not counting Xbox or PS but really it doesn't matter as long as there are enough people on the servers to play which there always were and will be for a long time now with the PS players coming on board. Same goes for how many people bought it and how many are on GP, we aren't the accountants of these console companies so why would we care?

Hofstaderman10d ago

Reporting on MAU stats is very misleading. Other companies publish units sold, MS cannot or will not due to Game Pass. We all know that their prior startegies have not panned out so now they have to actually sell games on other consoles. In any case, SoT is doing impressive preorders on PS5 and will very likely motivate Satya to release more games other than the four indicated games on their competitor's consoles. Take note Phil is radio silent....

Jingsing9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Yeah Microsoft would tell you the start menu has had 1 billions clicks on Windows 11 to let you know it is beating Windows 10 when the reality is something else. 10,000 concurrent steam users is enough for me to extrapolate there aren't millions playing this on console either. Lets not forget the motivation to bring this to PS5 is already an admission of poor player count. I'd prefer it is Microsoft would just say nothing when it comes to numbers as it makes them look stupid while trying to make everyone else look like an idiot.

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Abear2110d ago

40 Mil across Stream, Windows 10, and Xbox. Healthy numbers for sure, but when PC is the biggest platform, I expected more. It’ll be interesting to see how it does on PlayStation. Very well could be double that player count in 6 months with PS too. It’s crazy for developers to skip the most popular platform, not sure why they’d want to, but they must have had their rea$ons.

Christopher9d ago

PC is the market with the most competition for these type of games as well, so it's actually easier to break in on consoles where these games aren't as prominent.

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